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How to beat a bully
■ Check out the highlights from last week’s South Philly Sandwich Review in which more than 200 carnivores passed judgment on 10 competitors. See page 22.
BRIDAL GUIDE
■ Have wedding plans? Check out our Spring Weddings section for ideas that may just help with ironing out all of the exciting details. See page 25.
SPORTS
Local recording artist Felicia Punzo brought an anti-bullying presentation to GAMP. ■ Bill Chenevert R e v i e w S ta f f W r i t e r
■ A pair of East Passyunk Crossing-situated baseball players signed with thriving college programs. See page 45.
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elicia Punzo asked an auditorium full of fth through eighth graders all kinds of questions Friday afternoon at the Girard Academic Music Program, 2136 Ritner St. For some, in order to incentivize speaking out in front of their peers, they got a rubbery bracelet. But some inqui-
Felicia Punzo, a Neumann-Goretti alum and South Philadelphia resident, kicked off a campaign at the Girard Estate institution with tips on how to identify and defeat bullying.
ries simply asked for a show of hands. “So how many people here have been bullied before?” Punzo, a graduate of Ss. Neumann-Goretti High School, 1736 S. 10th St., asked. A strong majority raised their hands, nearly 80 percent. “How many of you have been a bully?” she posed. Almost the exact amount of hands went up. And it looks like the time-tested tradition of prank phone-
STEM students show the safest way
calling is still alive and well. When asked “How Photo by many of you have Corey Carter gotten a prank phone call?,” it was hard to spot a hand that wasn’t raised. The first event in an antibullying campaign coordinated by Punzo through 2nd District Councilman Kenyatta Johnson included a well-received presentation by the budding 20-year-old South Philadelphia recording See ANTI-BULLYING page 10 >>
Academy at Palumbo pupils earned $140,000 of tech resources in national Samsung competition.
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